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Small fry have been balking at piano lessons for a long time; the new distraction of TV often makes things even tougher. But Music Teacher Bernard Gabriel, 37, thinks he knows how to win: make sure the kids have fun. Sometimes this leads to a circus atmosphere in his Manhattan studio. Says Teacher Gabriel: "I've never yet heard of a child who hated circuses...
...World War II industrial circus staged by Cleveland's upstart manufacturers Jack & Heintz Inc., U.S. business men never quite knew whether to hiss or cheer Ringmaster Bill Jack. He both be wildered and fascinated them with his free meals, free massages, free Florida vacations for his "associates" (employees) and the $39,000 bonus he paid his secretary for "just working hard." On a $100,-ooo stake and $3,400,000 in Government loans, he rang up peak sales of $90 million in 1943 and overnight became the nation's largest maker of airplane starters and automatic pilots...
...circus ended. Said Jack's colleague Ralph Heintz: "It is time we faced facts. The free benefits we formerly received were paid for by Uncle Sam." Bill Jack sold out for $8,000,000 and went out to Rancho Santa Fe, Calif, to take it easy. By 1949, idleness chafed him. In Solana Beach, Calif., he organized the Bill Jack Scientific Instrument Co. to make a new kind of aerial reconnaissance camera, rounded up some new "associates" and began dreaming big dreams. Last week it looked as if Bill Jack was ready to hop into the public...
...Fort Sheridan, Ill., Inductee Donald Nothdorft, for three years the "Human Cannonball" for a circus, told officers: "I don't think I want to be in the artillery...
Stravinsky conducts the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in Fireworks, Ode, Norwegian Moods and Circus Polka, plays piano for Violinist Joseph Szigeti in Russian Maiden's Song, leads the Woody Herman Orchestra in Ebony Concerto. With the exception of Fireworks, Composer Stravinsky is represented by inconsequential pieces, but the disk (2 sides LP) will be a valuable, though perhaps dusty, collector's item. Recording: fair...